Re: [TuxKart-devel] Work to do.

[pmb <phi...@vi...>]

Steve Baker wrote:

> pmb wrote:
>
>> Maybe Tcp/Ip multiplayer would be cool. I could do that.
>
>
> We said we'd only add that "if someone comes along who
> passionately wants to do it"...so maybe that just happened!
>
> Do you really think TCP is the right way?
>
> I generally use UDP because it's faster and has MUCH lower
> latency.
>
> In UDP, if you lose a packet, it just ignores the loss - which
> for a racing game is fine because another packet is already
> on it's way.   You just have to be careful about bonuses and
> any permenantly changed track or character elements.
>
> In TCP, packets are acknowledged, error checked and resent
> if missing.  This is OK - but in a game like this, by the time
> a missing data packet has been flagged as missing, re-requested,
> and re-transmitted...another packet reflecting a later point in
> time has already been sent.
>
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I'm familiar too with C++.
I was thinking about that, you need some way to recognise the different 
players on the track, how about some penguins with linux distributions 
logos, ex: At the config area I chose a Debian logo, and during the 
game, it would show that logo on the back of my kart. Just my idea though.

I also am interested to port the game to differents oses, I have 3 
solaris cdrom there that I could use.
Mayby I could also port it to windows. It would be a great idea to put 
UDP multiplayer in that.

I did some programming under windows, started with C and Folowed to C++. 
Until 3 years I didn't use linux/unix at all, but now I work mostly in 
linux.

I could start by porting the software to solaris, then maybe some other 
platforms (windows ?).
One question: do I  staticaly include PLIB ? does it come with solaris ????

No, I'm not really good with The Gimp. :(

So what do you think about that ?